Guys Guys, I'm Sorry, No, There's a Mistake - The 2016 ILX Film Poll Results Thread

The plot reads similarly to The Falling (which I loved). Does anyone know if there's a connection there?

One of the films I regret missing.

It's pretty great.

44. Sieranevada (d: Puiu) - 72 pts. 2 votes

http://i.imgur.com/dpai3AP.jpg

wish I could have seen this. I really love The Death of Mr. Lazarescu

I've not hear of any of these films! Good work ilxors!

Saw it, liked it enormously; ineligible in my eyes. Still apparently w/out US distribution.

Yeah, pretty stoked to see it whenever it eventually comes out.

You people and your unreleased Romanian films.

Every Year!

unlike ESPN miniseries

43. Arrival (d: Villenueve) - 73 pts. 5 votes

http://i.imgur.com/tlxjOs7.jpg

Was among the two votes for Love Witch and am at least glad it's placement here is going to spur a lot of redressing.

And The Fits gets better and better in memory. Already wish I'd have slotted it higher.

GTFO with Jackie

42. 20th Century Women (d: Mills) - 76 pts. 5 votes

http://i.imgur.com/Y2oIpl6.jpg

Lots of people I know love this. I saw it twice and thought Mills interfered, as usual, with the3 pathos of his own material.

That film gets better the more I think about it. Molly Haskell was pretty good on it.

Bening and Crudup are terrific together.

wish I liked the Jóhannsson score to Arrival more, it was disappointing to me.
loved 20th Century Women

Tower is something which shouldn't work, but the rotoscope pulls you in more effectively than a straightforward reenactment would and the scene where the newscaster announces his grandsons death is one of the most gut wrenching scenes of last year.

Last one for the night

41. Loving (d: Nichols) - 77 pts. 4 votes

http://i.imgur.com/21SrSV3.jpg

that image captures the best moment of the movie for me

The worst I can say about 20th Century Women is its more of a showcase for great moments than a great film. Which is to say, it made my list without hesitation.

Sometimes too quiet; I don't think Nichols has the skill yet to make that sort of stillness work. Often moving, though, especially Negga. If you got kids, watch it on a double bill with I Am Not Your Negro.

The Fits: Quite good, and surprising. I went in expecting something like, I dunno, Real Women Have Curves or some such thing and got something much closer to It Follows.

I was expecting 20th Century and Loving to be tedious awards bait (despite Nichols especially), but was pleasantly surprised to find both far more intelligent and engaging as a result.

Love Witch ran maybe 2 weeks in NY, missed it. Doesn't seem to be a DVD or on Amazon.

20th Century Women felt like it could slot in with movies like Slums of Beverly Hills and Little Miss Sunshine.

The Love Witch is apparently coming out on dvd 3/14

20th Century Women felt like it could slot in with movies like Slums of Beverly Hills and Little Miss Sunshine.

― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Tuesday, March 7, 2017 9:40 PM

you dishonor it

Love Witch played 2 special screenings in DC and that was it. Rented it last month on iTunes.

dishonor it? Maybe Little Miss Sunshine isn't that great, but Slums is a fantastic film. Sure there's no performances as great as Bening though.

Slums is solid. Little Miss Sunshine is solid waste.

Saw the James Baldwin tonight. (The right one this time.) I probably would have put it around #10 on my list. If you're going to double-bill it with something, it should be O.J. Do they ever double-bill eight-hour films?

Just noticed the thread title and can only presume it's prophetic.

#1: Rules Don't Apply

lol

obv myopic american parochialism should be the rule, not sure we should even allow foreign language films tbh

I'd forgotten about Rams & the club, might have voted for the former if I'd remembered it. The club hasn't stuck much beyond a vague sense that it was a bit like father ted. Should have voted for the falling too! Tracy thorn <3

Wanna see love witch, it's opening Friday here and has four showings but they're all during work hours smh

I was the #1 for the pearl button, if you like nostalgia for the light it's more of the same

So happy for Sieranevada, my #2 (or #3 perhaps, can't remember). Just assumed it wasn't going to get distribution anywhere anyways, so put it on this year. Now it can votesplit its way to the mid-fourties two years in a row. Yay! But wow, it's such a masterful film, perhaps Puiu's best.

Jackie should have been much higher, obviously. Among the best of the oscar-pap. The light especially. That long shot of the procession that ends up on John Jr's face inside the limo. Great film.

I'm equally annoyed by the low placing of Zootopia/Zootropolis and The Lobster.

Kackie

Keechie

I voted for The Lobster but I saw it in '15

I mean I *would have* voted for The Lobster

maggies plan was p bad imo, gretas character was a lot like her character in mistress America, but w/o like poking fun @ that archetype

We not discussing these?

I get what Loving was doing at the same time that I was indifferent to it. That's virtually all I have to say about it.